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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Pathalias question
Message-ID: <1989Jun19.074748.18296@twwells.com>
Date: 19 Jun 89 07:47:48 GMT
References: <1242@psuhcx.psu.edu>
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In article <1242@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
: I'd like to mark psuvax1 as dead in my maps, but then if any paths end up
: with psuvax1 in them, I'd like to have the path start with psuvax1.
:
: Here's the situation:  psuvax1 munges my uucp mail in an unacceptable way
: (at least it used to), so I mark it as dead.  I have a connection using
: uucp over tcp/ip with lll-winken, and all my mail goes out that way.
: Unfortunately, my path to psuvax1 is now
:
: psuvax1       lll-winken!ames!think!bloom-beacon!garp!psuvax1!%s
:
: and hosts which are only reachable through psuvax1 use this path as well.
: I want to get rid of the lll-winken!ames!think!bloom-beacon!garp, but not
: to route anything more through psuvax1 than I have to.
:
: Any suggestions?

Presumably, you have a direct link to psuvax1? If so, run the output
of pathalias through the following:

sed 's/^I[^^I]*!psuvax1!/^Ipsuvax1!/'

(The ^I's are tab characters.)

All it does is strip off the prefix of the path to psuvax1.

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